MELASTOMACE^. 49 



gamophyllous, lobes moderate or minute. Petals obtuse Or more 

 rarely pointed {Anerindeistus,^ Ochthocharis "), much contorted. 

 Stamens 4, alternipetalous (Eublastus,^) or oftener 8, very (Driessenia) 

 or little unequal {Ochthocharis, Anerincleistus) ; anthers elongate 

 subulate, 1-porous at apex ; connective dilated at base and furnished 

 with 1 rather long thin slender dorsal and 2 often short obtuse or 

 subnil ventral appendages. G-ermen by means of septa more or less 

 adnate to receptacle, 4, 5-celled, at vertex more or less depressed or 

 hollowed; style slender, at apex stigmatose punctiform. Fruit 

 capsular, girt or enclosed by receptacle, 4, 5-valved ; seeds oftener 

 obovoid - cuneate, sometimes (Eublastus) more or less curved. — - 

 Glabrous or more rarely {Anerincleistus) tomentose shrubs, sometimes 

 subherbaceous {Driessenia) ; leaves opposite, entire, sinuate or denti- 

 culate ; flowers * fasciculate in axillary or very rarely terminal cymes.'* 

 (Malaya, East India, Cochin China, China.^) 



25. Kendrickia Hook f.'' — Flowers 4-merous; receptacle tur- 

 binate obtusely 4-gonal. Sepals short obtuse fleshy. Petals 

 roundly obovate, contrariwise contorted. Stamens 10, subequal ; 

 anthers thick, produced externally at base to a conical spur.^ Germen 

 to middle adnate to receptacle, 4-6-celled ; style slender, at apex 

 stigmatose minute; ovules oo , inserted on shghtly prominent placentae. 

 Fruit capsular, finally (from disappearance of septa) sub- 1 -celled, 

 4-6-valved at apex ; seeds oo , " small prismatic." — A high-climbing ' 

 glabrous shrub; leaves somewhat fleshy oblong-obovoid entire, 3- 

 nerved ; flowers'** cymose at top of twigs; cymes umbelliform; 

 pedicels 3-bracteolate. {Geylon.^^} 



26. Medinilla Gaudich.'^ — Flowers 4-6-merous ; receptacle tur- 



'' KoRTH. loe.cii. 250, t. 68.— B.B.. Gen. 75S, Zugd.-Bat. i. 216 (flehthoeharis) .—'Bi,. Mm. 



n. 70.— Tki. Melast. 75, t. 5, fig. 71. — Hook. Lugd.-Bat. i. 13 {Driessenia), 40 {Ochthocharis). 



Fl. Ind. ii. 529. • —Hook. p. Herb. Kelfer, u. 2304 {Anerincleistus). 



2 Bl. Flora (1831), 523 ; Mus. Zugd.-Bat. i. — Walp. Sep. v. 681 [Aneriiieleiitus, Ockthocha- 



39. — Natjd. he. eit. xv. 306, t. 16. — B. H. Gen. ris\ 687 {Driessenia). 



152, n. 66.— Tri. Melast. Ii, t. 6, fig. 67.— ' Gen. 751, n. 63.— Tri Melast. 75, t. 5, fig. 



Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 528. 70.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 526. 



* Blastus of authors. — Tbi. loc. cit. ' Superior in the bud, compressed and with 



* Minute, inconspicuous. all other spurs contorted before anthesis. 



* Anthers in all sections cited above certainly ' Spuriously parasitic. 

 of the same character ; the basilar appendages '" Rather large, pink. 



only differing in size and thickness. " Spec. 1. £. Walkeri Hook. p. — Medinilla ? 



" Spec, about 8. Korth. op. dt. t. 64 {Ochtho- Walkeri Gardn. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. viii. 11. 



.charisj.—BmiiH. Fl. Hongk. IW {Anplectrim). — Wight, III. i. 211 .—Pachycentria Walkeri 



—Wail. Cat. n. 4087 (Jlf«tes«oma).— Tetsm. et Tkw. Emm. PI. Zeyl. 107. 



BiNN. Nat. Tijdschr: xxv. — Mia. Ann. Mus. " Freyiin. Toy. Bot. i»i,i. 106.— ^C. Prodr. 



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